The tradition of the Gregorian music week
in Latvia started in the year of 1993, when a group of about
30 young people who took a great interest in Gregorian music,
which until then was something unheard of in Latvia, got together
for the first time in a picturesque village of Āraiši, about
70 km away from Riga. Since then the Gregorian music week
has become a living and enduring tradition and every summer
around 100 participants take part in it from all over Latvia
and even abroad.